Once we replace cars what do we do with all of them?

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    I think the transition away from cars will be slow enough that this wont be a problem. In the ideal situation, people will just stop replacing their broken down cars.

    • Lifted_loweredOP
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      31 year ago

      Yeah but what do we do with all the steel, rubber, aluminum, & plastic involved in all these cars?

      • @kartonrealista
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        91 year ago

        We already deal with it somehow. Scrap them for metal, recycle rubber and probably just throw away plastic, because plastic recycling is pretty crappy.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I guess we’ll have to recycle what we can, and put the rest in a landfill. Just the same as what we do with run down cars today.

        I guess recycling will be a bit harder because we will not be using the materials to make new cars.

        • @ConfidentLonelyM
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          21 year ago

          Yeah that’s probably true, but we will need new stuff. More public transport like trains and so on. I would assume that we can recycle quite some stuff there.

          Also a lot of other things need these resources and I am sure that at least a lot of the could be used to enhance the world further

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    Fuck them obviously, I thought that was the point?

    Serious answer tho: I have no idea honestly, we have made so many of them. Strip them for raw materials and re purpose it all?

    • Lifted_loweredOP
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      11 year ago

      Yeah like there are so many scrap cars with rusted out frames from previous generations, but have actual cars running that can use the parts the older car in the scrapyard has, that is the whole business model of this company Pick n Pull that operates around here for keeping old cars alive, they have a bunch of them you can pick and pull parts off of and pay per part, and this kind of thing to keep existing cars alive seems like a good way to transition instead of dumping everything which has already been tried.

  • Corhen
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    81 year ago

    In the end, the goal should never be “lets get rid of every single car”, but rather “lets shift from a Car-centric design, to a active transportation & healthy living-centric design”

    • Lifted_loweredOP
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      21 year ago

      What if running some of them is actually more efficient than tearing them all down in terms of environmental costs/industrial throughput given the fact that smelting and recycling metals has an environmental cost in itself? Can I keep my 5 seat wagon with 2 rear facing jump seats in the cargo area that have seatbelts but are technically illegal because the trunk doesn’t have a way to open it from the inside? It doesn’t even get good mileage but it’s a people hauler.

        • Lifted_loweredOP
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          01 year ago

          Basically any cars that still run should be packed to the brim like the combis of many latin american nations

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Repurposing existing cars would make sense if there was no alternative. Obviously in reality certain areas can’t go without cars, and heavy machinery like forklifts can’t really be replaced.

            • Lifted_loweredOP
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              31 year ago

              Yeah it’s kinda ironic I think the combis and small transports that so many people rely on in car centric latinoamerica are a category that would benefit especially well from electrification & replacement with rail, both would improve many peoples’ quality of life but fossil fuel companies benefit from nobody moving away from them outside of the first world.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    I’d turn the alternators into electric motors. Seats would make good desk chairs! Obviously stereo parts could be used for home audio stuff.

  • @Lag
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    11 year ago

    Steampunk era.